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ARGENTINAJuan Miguel Picolotti, Executive Director,Fundacion Centro de Derechos

Humanos y Ambiente (CEDHA)

AUSTRALIASarah Roebuck, Solicitor, Environmental Defenders Office

BANGLADESHHafijul Islam Khan, Executive Director, Center for Climate Justice - Bangladesh

BRAZILKamyla Borges Cunha, Coordinator of Energy Initiative, Institute for Energy

and the Environment (IEMA)

Paulo Celso de Oliveira, Attorney, DOA Advocacia de Direitos Humanos

Juliana de Paula Batista, Attorney, Instituto Socioambiental (ISA)

CANADAKristin Casper, Litigation Counsel, Greenpeace International

Andrew Gage, Staff Counsel, West Coast Environmental Law

Anna Johnston, Staff Counsel, West Coast Environmental Law

Calvin Sandborn, Legal Director, University of Victoria Environmental Law Center

Erica Stahl, Staff Counsel, West Coast Environmental Law

CHADDelphine Djiraibe, Chief Attorney, Public Interest Law Center

CHILEGabriela Burdiles Perucci, Project Director, Fiscalia Del Medio Ambiente (FIMA)

CHINACaidan Cao, Legal Unit Head, Greenpeace East Asia

JingJing Zhang, Open Society Foundations FellowVisiting scholar, Environmental Law Institute

COLOMBIARosa Maria Mateus Parra, Human Rights Defender & Lawyer, CAJAR

Aura Benilda Tegria Cristancho, Legal AdvisorU’wa Association of Traditional Authorities and

Councils (Asou’wa)

CONGO-BRAZZAVILLEBrice Severin Pongui, Executive Director, Institut Cerveau Vert 2063

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGOErick Kassongo Kalonji, President, Centre Congolais

pour le Développement Durable (CODED)

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ENVIRONMENTAL HEROES COME TO EUGENE

The world’s leading grassroots advocates are traveling to Eugene to work with the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW) to chart a greener future. They will collaborate across borders to help communities around the globe speak out for clean air, clean water, and a healthy planet.

ELAW is hosting visitors from more than 45 countries for the 2017 ELAW Annual International Meeting and side events (February 26 – March 2) followed by the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (March 2 – 5, www.pielc.org).

Learn more about these inspiring overseas partners and the ELAW Team in the following profiles.

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Jean Lambert Lisika Ngbongolo, Lawyer & Secretary, Centre Congolais pour le

Développement Durable (CODED)

DOMINICAN REPUBLICEuren Cuevas, Director, Institute of Law for the

Protection of the Environment (INSAPROMA)

ECUADORManuel Morales Feijoo, Lawyer, Corporación de Gestión y Derecho

Ambiental (ECOLEX)

GERMANYKarl Stracke, Lawyer, Independent Institute for

Environmental Issues (UfU)

Roda Verheyen, Attorney at Law, Rechtsanwälte Günther

Michael Zschiesche, Director, Independent Institute for

Environmental Issues (UfU)

GHANAAugustine Niber, Executive Director, Center for Public Interest Law (CEPIL)

GUATEMALAEstuardo Noack, Civil Engineer, Alianza de Derecho Ambiental y Agua (ADA2)

Jeanette de Noack, Lawyer and Notary, Alianza de Derecho Ambiental y Agua (ADA2)

HAITIJean Andre Victor, Head Manager, Association Haitienne de Droit

de l’Environnement (AHDEN)

HONDURASLaura Palmese Hernandez, Environmental Lawyer, Association for

Environmental Democracy

HUNGARYTamas Borcsok, Research Fellow, Environmental Management and Law Association

Sandor Fulop, Chair, Environmental Management and Law Association

INDIARahul Choudhary, Lawyer, Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE)

Shweta Narayan, Coordinator, Community Environmental Monitoring, The Other Media

INDONESIARaynaldo Sembiring, Deputy Director, Indonesian Center

for Environmental Law (ICEL)

ISRAELTammy Ganot, Director of the Marine Management Unit,

Adam Teva V’Din (IUED)

Dana Tabachnik, Environmental Lawyer

JAPANKenji Fukuda, Partner and Attorney at Law, Waseda Legal Commons LPC

KENYAOmar Mohamed Elmawi, National Liaison Officer, Save Lamu

Antony Mulekyo, Advocate, High court of Kenya, Board Chairman, Legal Advice Center

Benson Owuor Ochieng, Secretary/Treasurer, Institute for Law and

Environmental Governance

Waikwa Wanyoike, Executive Director, Katiba Institute

Collins Harrison Odhiambo, Deputy Secretary, Parliamentary Affairs and

Legislation, Law Society of Kenya

Apollo Mboya, Lead Counsel, Center for Legal Affairs

LIBERIAAlfred Lahai Brownell, Founder, Green Advocates

Francis Kemaworlee Colee, Program Coordinator, Green Advocates

MADAGASCARLalaina Rakotoson, Executive Director, Development and

Environmental Law Center (DELC)

MEXICOSandra Moguel Archila, Director, Southeast Regional Office,

Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental (CEMDA)

Ximena Ramos Pedrueza Ceballos, Senior Expert, Centro Mexicano de

Derecho Ambiental (CEMDA)

Alejandra Serrano Pavon, Environmental Lawyer

Raquel Gutierrez Najera, President, Instituto de Derecho Ambiental (IDEA A.C.)

Eduardo Mosqueda Sanchez, Attorney, Instituto de Derecho Ambiental (IDEA A.C.)

Fernando Ochoa Pineda, Executive Director, Defensa Ambiental del Noroeste (DAN)

Gerardo Tallavas, Senior Expert, Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental (CEMDA)

MYANMARThan Than Aye, Myanmar Legal Coordinator,Earthrights International (ERI)

NEPALPrakash Mani Sharma, Executive Chair, Forum for the Protection of

Public Interest (Pro Public)

NETHER-LANDSJasper Teulings, General Counsel/ Advocate,

Greenpeace International

NICARAGUALottie Cunningham Wren, President, Center for Justice and Human Rights

of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua (CEJUDHCAN)

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NIGERIASimon Amaduobogha, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law,

Niger Delta University

PAKISTANQazi Ali Athar, Environmental Law Attorney, Eco-Initiative, Environmental Protection Clinic

PALESTINEAnan AbuShanab, Legal Research and Advocacy Officer, Al-Haq Organization

PERUMartha Torres Marcos-Ibanez, Coordinator - Amazon Program Derecho,

Ambiente y Recurso Naturales

PHILIPPINESChel Diokno, Chairperson, Free Legal Assistance Group

Jenny Ramos, Environmental Lawyer

Grizelda “Gerthie” Mayo-Anda, Executive Director, Environmental Legal Assistance

Center, Inc. (ELAC)

Aaron Pedrosa, Secretary-General, SANLAKAS Co-chair, Energy Working Group,

Philippine Movement for Climate Justice (PMCJ)

SIERRA LEONEDaniel E. Johnson, Environmental Lawyer,

Washington College of Law

SOUTH AFRICARobyn Hugo, Program Head, Pollution and Climate

Change Programme, Centre for Environmental Rights

Christine Reddell, Attorney, Corporate Accountability and Transparency Programme, Centre for

Environmental Rights

Gino Cocchiaro, Program Director, Extractives and Infrastructure, Natural Justice

SRI LANKAHemantha Withanage, Executive Director, Centre for

Environmental Justice

SWAZILANDThuli Brilliance Makama, Director, Environmental Law Centre

TANZANIARugemeleza Nshala, Co-founder and Executive Director,

Lawyers’ Environmental Action Team (LEAT)

Franklin Leonard Masika, Field Officer, Lawyers’ Environmental Action Team (LEAT)

Joshua Gift, Natural Resources Rights Officer, Association for Law and Advocacy for Pastoralists

THAILANDDaniel King, Mekong-Myanmar Programs Director, EarthRights International

Sor Polkla, Coordinator and Director, Community Resource Centre Foundation

TURKEYDeniz Bayram, Lawyer/ Legal Counsel, Greenpeace Mediterranean

UGANDAFrank Tumusiime, Advocates for Natural Resources and Development (ANARDE)

Samantha Atukunda Kakuru, Advocate and Legal Consultant, Greenwatch Uganda

Hon. Justice Kenneth Kakuru, Justice of Appeal, Government of Uganda

UNITED KINGDOMAmy Rose, Head of Strategic Litigation, Client Earth

Sophie MarjanacLawyer, Company and Financial/Climate Damage, Client Earth

ZIMBABWEMutuso Dhliwayo, Director, Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association

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Many thanks to the following funders

and organizations for making the 2017 ELAW

Annual International Meeting a success:

PHILIP STODDARD & ADELE SMITH BROWN FOUNDATION

CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

CHILDREN’S INVESTMENT FUND FOUNDATION

CIVIL LIBERTIES DEFENSE CENTER

CLIMATE RIGHTS COLLECTIVE

EARTHJUSTICE

EARTHRIGHTS

EUROPEAN CLIMATE FOUNDATION

FORD FOUNDATION

FRONT LINE DEFENDERS

GOLDMAN ENVIRONMENTAL PRIZE

GREENPEACE

HEINRICH BOLL FOUNDATION

LAND AIR WATER

C.S. MOTT FOUNDATION

PAWA LAW GROUP, P.C.

PROTECTORS FUND OF RSF SOCIAL FINANCE

NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMICS, INC.

OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS

OUR CHILDREN’S TRUST

IRWIN ANDREW PORTER FOUNDATION

SIERRA CLUB

SUMMIT FOUNDATION

THE CENTER ON RACE, POVERTY & THE

ENVIRONMENT

LAW OFFICES OF CHARLIE TEBBUTT

TRUST FOR MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING

WALLACE GLOBAL FUND

WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER

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Special thanks to Mountain Rose Herbs for serving as Lead Sponsor of ELAW’s 2017 Global Community Conversations.

Watch for details in Eugene Weekly.

The Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide thanks the many local businesses, organizations, and individuals who have contributed to our efforts this year and made our 2017 ELAW Annual International Meeting possible. Special thanks to the University of Oregon’s American English Institute for providing Director’s Distinction Scholarships to dozens of partners around the world to improve their English. Also, thanks to Erika Leaf and her mother Fredi Leaf for providing the Fredi Leaf ELAW Fellows House. And many thanks to Todd Cooper and his colleagues at Eugene Weekly for working with us to design this insert!

All over the world, people are calling for a greener future. People want to breathe clean air and drink clean water. We want to protect our global climate. We want our children to enjoy a clean, healthy, natural environment.

 ELAW connects people across borders and helps people around the world speak

with strong voices and win victories for the environment. ELAW gives local lawyers the legal and scientific tools they need to: 1. Prevent pollution and challenge environmental abuses2. Protect our global climate3. Strengthen and enforce laws protecting the environment4. Help citizens speak out for communities and the environment  

At ELAW, we believe that grassroots attorneys working in their home countries are the key to building a sustainable future. That’s why we always work with committed local partners.

 Advocates in more than 80 countries know they can call on ELAW for the help they need. Every year, citizen lawyers call on us for help with hundreds of efforts to protect communities and the environment. By empowering grassroots lawyers, we help win victories and build a worldwide corps of strong advocates for the environment.

 We all share a single planet and we must build bridges across borders.  At ELAW

U.S., we are proud to work with courageous advocates all over the world.  We are thrilled to welcome these advocates to Eugene, where we will learn, gain inspiration, and work together to craft a greener, more just future.

Bern JohnsonEXECUTIVE DIRECTORENVIRONMENTAL LAW ALLIANCE WORLDWIDE

Lori MaddoxASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

Krista ShennumOFFICE MANAGER & VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR

Mark ChernaikSTAFF SCIENTIST

Dorna BaumannBOOKKEEPER ON CONTRACT

Jennifer GleasonSTAFF ATTORNEY

Glenn GillisINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGER

Maggie KeenanCOMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR

Killian DohertyLAW ASSOCIATE

Liz MitchellSTAFF ATTORNEY

Meche LuSTAFF SCIENTIST

Heidi WeiskelSTAFF SCIENTIST

Pedro Leon GutiérrezOF COUNSEL

David PughWEB DEVELOPER

U.S. TEAM

Michael Fuller ENCORE FELLOW

Ashley WhiteDIRECTOR OF PHILANTHROPY